The General Secretary for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia says his party will revoke the Free SHS Double-Tracking System policy when they are voted back into power in 2020.
Describing the policy as a ‘Shambolic’ one – he said his party will not hesitate to scrap it without even reviewing it.
“When we come to power in 2020, the first thing we will do is, we will abolish the double-tracking system. Bad planning is what has created the impression of overcrowding in schools," he said in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’.
The Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration recently adopted the double-tracking system to accommodate the increasing number of students in public schools under the Free SHS policy which was introduced in September 2017.
Currently about 362,118 first-year students in public SHSs in the country are benefiting from the policy, with 117,692 of them being day students and 244,426 as boarders.
Due to the increase in enrollment in 2017, the Education Ministry, led by Member of Parliament (MP) for Manyhia South, Dr Mathew Opoku-Prempeh, popularly called NAPO, has projected that enrollment for 2018 may hover around 472,730 against a reported available seats of 290,737, leaving a gap of 181, 993.
The Ministry has pointed out that the double-tracking system shall offer students more instructional and contact hours with teachers as well as make better use of the available classroom space.
But the opposition NPP and its ‘surrogates,’ have openly kicked against the move.
Ex-President John Mahama has also condemned the move, saying that “Introducing shift system for SHS doesn’t help to continue to implement this all-important free SHS programme on an ad-hoc basis.”
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that is all they know "alteration" when will you create or originate something? always some party to create something so that you will come and do alteration "habba!! do you not have brains yourselves? NDC. Because the system does not allow you to kill anymore you have become redundant.
You people keep talking as if you’re coming back to power in 2020.. anyway... You can abolish anything you want, only if you are allowed to come back to power and spend our money. You might think we have short memories, but majority of us aren’t that dim witted.
This is a country whose media gives space to cockroaches, rats, vultures et all to spew n0ns3ns3 all the time.This creature a complete nonentity has enough money to send his kids to school abroad and has the balls to say that others should not be given the opportunity to go to school.The double track system is not a permanent feature in our educational system. It is simply meant to address a particular problem at a particular time.If this runt had his way most Ghanaians would be as empty headed as the wretches who follow them around cheering loudly as the feed them n0ns3nse.
Does this weasel understand the double track at all. Sometimes you media waste our time kwa on these characters. He hasn't read he has not visited any school and yet condemning.